Managing Multicultural Lives

Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities

Bibliographic Data

ID23398494
AuthorsPawan Dhingra (corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-02-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueManaging Multicultural Lives (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780804768238
OpenAlexW4207040195
Open LibraryOL46592886M
ISBN9780804768238
LanguageEN
Citations received67

How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work, "racial" in pan-ethnic spaces? Managing Multicultural Lives moves past this common assumption and demonstrates how minorities actually bring together contrasting identities. Using the words and experiences of Indian American and Korean American professionals themselves, Pawan Dhingra eloquently shows how people break down the popular "margins vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived hybridity." He offers new insight into minorities' experiences at work, at home, and in civil society. These Asian Americans' ability to handle group boundaries fluidly leads them to both resist and support stratified social patterns. It also indicates new, more nuanced understandings of immigrant adaptation, multiculturalism, and identity management that pertain to multiple types of immigrant groups.

Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Sociology · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology · Cultural fusion · East Indian Americans · East Indians · Ethnic identity · foreign countries · Group identity · Korean Americans

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